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“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.”
“No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.”

Hanya manusia mempunyai kehendak dan rencana dalam hidupnya, yang akan selalu diperjuangkannya—bahkan malaikat pun tidak memilikinya. Bahagialah manusia yang bisa merasakan derita. Hatinya merupakan dunia yang kaya.

Perempuan sebaiknya unggul dalam banyak hal melalui otaknya, karena kaum lelaki selalu menindas mereka dengan ototnya.

Maybe it’s wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

No matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.

I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn’t change, I forgot the most important thing.

Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability.

Hirai saw Kei as a confidante. A single kind word from Kei could cut the cords of tension that ran through her.

She was putting on a brave face, but her bravery was real.

“Apa susahnya, sih, mencari sesuatu buat dirayakan? Kalau saja ada musik, asalkan bukan Indonesia Pusaka dan dua atau tiga orang lain, asalkan bukan Pak Gubernur, saya tak keberatan menunjukkan joget T-Rex andalan saya.”

Hukuman, Anda tahu, memang fana. Tetapi dendam abadi.

They love good food, to make it, to seek it, to share it, and I was an honorary guest at their table.

If I didn’t like something, she never forced me to eat it, and if I ate only half my portion, she never made me finish the plate. She believed food should be enjoyed and that it was more of a waste to expand your stomach than to keep eating when you were full. Her only rule was that you had to try everything once.

Life is unfair, and sometimes it helps to irrationally blame someone for it.

Aku mencoba mendidik diriku untuk tidak terlalu curiga pada kehidupan. Apabila hidup pernah melukaiku, bukan berarti tidak ada tempat-tempat yang baik hati di dunia, yang tidak menistai dan malah memberi suaka bagi kaum perempuan.

Buat apa mereka tahu bahwa aku tahu, kalau mereka selalu menganggapku tidak tahu? Lebih enak seperti ini saja. Aku pura-pura tidak tahu dan mereka menganggapku tidak tahu.

Atas nama dendam yang belum dituntaskan, mereka sesungguhnya hanya sedang melepaskan segala tumpukan beban. Saling menyerang dan saling terluka. Saling tersungkur dan saling tersulut.

It‘s perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it’s the most common way. In general, people stay at home, they’re happy that their phone never rings; and when it does, they let the answering machine pick up. No news is good news.

For one reason or another, human societies have always had great difficulty in organizing themselves without reference to a higher principle.